Automatically open a specific spreadsheet when opening Excel

[Carlos]

When initially opening Excel, is there any way to have Excel open up a
specific spreadsheet determined via Excel Options?

I would like Excel to open a spreadsheet that I always need automatically
every single time I open up the program.

Let me know if there is any way to do this?

Thanks for your help!
Carlos

 

[Gord Dibben]

Place the workbook in your XLSTART folder or your Alternate startup folder.


Gord Dibben MS Excel MVP

 

[Dave Peterson]

You could put that workbook in your XLStart folder.

You could put the workbook in a folder that excel looks at when it starts.
Then change an option to tell excel to start looking there (in xl2003 menus):
Tools|Options|General tab
Put the folder name in the: At startup, open all files in:

Don't put other files in this folder--unless you want excel to try to open them.

Personally, I wouldn't do either of these.

Instead I'd open windows explorer.
Traverse to the drive/folder that contains that file.
right click on it and choose:
Send to
then choose
Desktop (create shortcut)

Then use this shortcut to start excel.

This gives me the option of not starting this workbook when I really don't want
it open.